Residencies '19 - '20

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven’s (AMVK) oeuvre is multi medial, philosophical, post-feminist, subversive, imploring. She has been experimenting for years with the most diverse (digital) media - from the photocopier in the seventies to photoshop from the noughties, from video work to painting on plexiglas. The DOCU-PRESS exhibition offers a selection of AMVK’s printed work, from the seventies to works that were made just a few weeks ago.

During her residence in January this year, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven produced a series of silk-screen prints entitled ‘Verborgen Lagen’ [Hidden Layers]. It was the fascination for the production process of that one forgotten Flemish tradition, tapestry art, which inspired AMVK at the start of her residence. Using the analogy of the time-honoured weaving technique, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven investigated how she could unravel the technical components of a printed image. In this way, attention emerges for human error, the irregularities that arise during the labour of printing. The deviant copies expose an unexpected gentleness in the mechanical procedure.